Fiction Quotes - Page 28

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.